for next Wednesday

power of nightmares episode 2&3 -takes notes

choose one of the articles on the refugee crisis and analyse the language for propaganda tools and logical fallacies - 1 page

start reading Major Barbara

Major Barbara

Gutenberg digital

Abbey Theatre

PDF version is available

Terrorist swarm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11804861/David-Cameron-says-describing-migrants-as-a-swarm-wasnt-dehumanising.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-says-he-did-not-dehumanise-migrants-with-swarms-comment-10456984.html

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/15/david-cameron-says-migrants-trying-to-break-in-to-uk-illegally

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/david-cameron-migration-crisis-will-not-be-solved-by-uk-taking-in-more-refugees

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/03/david-cameron-says-uk-will-fulfil-moral-responsibility-over-migration-crisis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/24/is-it-time-to-ditch-the-word-migrant/

watch and take notes

Power of nightmares part 2

take the quiz

here

and

here

Logical Fallacies

If you don't have Chomsky


here

Be ready to present.

Look for some other examples of these.

Propaganda

Propaganda

...uses all the tricks we have learned to convince the audience of what they should know better than to believe.

review our Sender-Message-Audience paradigm

We shall be using this site from George Mason University this site and this site as our  foundation sources

Seven Types of Propaganda

• Name Calling
• Glittering Generalities
• Transfer
• Testimonial
• Plain Folks
• Card Stacking
• Band Wagon

 Also divided thus into three of eight (yeah yeah, I know...)

Word games

Name-calling

Glittering generalities

Euphemisms 

 

False connection 

Transfer 

Testimonial 

 

Special Appeals

Plain Folks

Bandwagon

Fear

Consider in terms of our work on the language of Global climate destabilization, and what our good friend Mr. Chomsky has to say. Digital version here

Nature of Science

Watch all 3 and take notes.

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